travisvolta
2007-11-02, 08:26 AM CDT
Hello Fedora folks,
First of all, I'm sorry for my poor English. I am writing in a hurry, so please forgive me. You will find this review heavily biased because of my love with Ubuntu.
Downloaded FC 8 RC3 Live CD to play with. At the beginning, I did not quite get the login screen. It invited me to enter my username and password. It really took me a minute just to click on the Fedora icon to get through. Silly me, I know, but why don't you add some message explaining user what to do? I would think that user switcher in Live CD is not necessary - after all, Live CD contains only one user anyway.
I was very disappointed that I could not find any package manager in the default install. In Ubuntu we have one (called Synaptics). It's an essential part of the operating system, and in my humble opinion, Fedora is pretty useless without it.
The next disappointment came when I tried to enable 3D effects. It simply displayed an error message saying that 3D effects could not be enabled. I know, I know, I should not use nVIDIA graphics card, but anyway, the system should be more intelligent that it currently is. I spent 10 minutes searching the net on information about how to install nVIDIA driver under Fedora, but was unable to find the right info. Anyway, the user is expected to know exactly why the Desktop Effects do not work, and exactly which driver (nvidia or nvidia-legacy, etc) he needs. You can't expect that from an average user.
On the bright side, I found the PulseAudio volume control to be amazing. It' s a pitty that you have not entirelty replaced (or at least, integrated with) the default ALSA mixer. I mean, it would be great if you could change volume on app-by-app basis just by clicking on volume icon in the system panel.
To sum up, I found the latest Fedora to be quite impressive, but I'm not moving away from my Ubuntu anytime soon.
First of all, I'm sorry for my poor English. I am writing in a hurry, so please forgive me. You will find this review heavily biased because of my love with Ubuntu.
Downloaded FC 8 RC3 Live CD to play with. At the beginning, I did not quite get the login screen. It invited me to enter my username and password. It really took me a minute just to click on the Fedora icon to get through. Silly me, I know, but why don't you add some message explaining user what to do? I would think that user switcher in Live CD is not necessary - after all, Live CD contains only one user anyway.
I was very disappointed that I could not find any package manager in the default install. In Ubuntu we have one (called Synaptics). It's an essential part of the operating system, and in my humble opinion, Fedora is pretty useless without it.
The next disappointment came when I tried to enable 3D effects. It simply displayed an error message saying that 3D effects could not be enabled. I know, I know, I should not use nVIDIA graphics card, but anyway, the system should be more intelligent that it currently is. I spent 10 minutes searching the net on information about how to install nVIDIA driver under Fedora, but was unable to find the right info. Anyway, the user is expected to know exactly why the Desktop Effects do not work, and exactly which driver (nvidia or nvidia-legacy, etc) he needs. You can't expect that from an average user.
On the bright side, I found the PulseAudio volume control to be amazing. It' s a pitty that you have not entirelty replaced (or at least, integrated with) the default ALSA mixer. I mean, it would be great if you could change volume on app-by-app basis just by clicking on volume icon in the system panel.
To sum up, I found the latest Fedora to be quite impressive, but I'm not moving away from my Ubuntu anytime soon.